ATELIER ROMO

Sebastián Romo (Mexico City 1973), studied documentary film, photography and fine arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has made commissions in the public space for New York City and Amsterdam, among his most recent individual projects are “Tropicalia Negra” (El Eco) and a large format installation for the Merco Sur Biennial in Brazil. He currently directs the Atelier Romo, which is a multidisciplinary platform for projects today.

09.10.2019 — 20.11.2019

The work carried out with the girls and boys at Casa Cuna La Paz focused on the subject and its transformation. Art builds on this principle, whether it is blowing through a trumpet, using the body to accentuate or making a movement, by making poetry and giving deeper meaning to words. In particular, the visual arts work with matter. They are just one step away from alchemy. This is why we decided to use the elements Air, Earth, Fire and Water, as the guiding axis in the work done with children. In addition, some work sessions included bodywork and some Zen stories.

Session 1:

For the first session in order to get to know each other better, Sebastián gave us an experiment that became a slime dough that everyone could take home to continue playing with.

Session 2:

In this session we played with space and teamwork using cardboard boxes. Boys and girls played with them making castles, giant tunnels, trains and beds.

Session 3:

After the first two introductory sessions to the material, we began to work with the first element of the program: air. We built paper planes and experimented with different elements to make a giant soap bubble.

Session 5:

In this session, the element we worked on was water and its different states. For this occasion, we had an ice sculptor perform different forms such as a butterfly, a bird and a star at Casa Cuna La Paz. After the children built castles and a many shapes with crushed ice.